Diversity in young adult fiction: There's plenty of great information out there already about that topic. In fact, before I get any further, I'll just leave this here:
Diversity in YA
That's a link to the Diversity in YA blog, founded by fantastic YA authors Malinda Lo and Cindy Pon. Read it. Talk about the stuffs on it. Really.
There, that's done.
Now a little story.
I was driving my daughter to daycare last week and passed a fellow mowing his lawn. Nothing unusual, except that he was black. In our predominantly white and Hispanic town, there was only one black family that I knew of, and I had met them a few times and knew where they lived. This guy was new. "Yay!" I thought. "Our town just got a little more diverse."
And it had. But as I drove on, I thought about that happy-fuzzy feeling that "diversity" gives us (I get it looking around my workplace, for instance--a mix of races and backgrounds and ages all working together) and…
Diversity in YA
That's a link to the Diversity in YA blog, founded by fantastic YA authors Malinda Lo and Cindy Pon. Read it. Talk about the stuffs on it. Really.
There, that's done.
Now a little story.
I was driving my daughter to daycare last week and passed a fellow mowing his lawn. Nothing unusual, except that he was black. In our predominantly white and Hispanic town, there was only one black family that I knew of, and I had met them a few times and knew where they lived. This guy was new. "Yay!" I thought. "Our town just got a little more diverse."
And it had. But as I drove on, I thought about that happy-fuzzy feeling that "diversity" gives us (I get it looking around my workplace, for instance--a mix of races and backgrounds and ages all working together) and…